SPECIAL NOTICE
65 -- Custom Coupled Beads, Product Number COUPLING
- Notice Date
- 6/7/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 325998
— All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Procurement Management Branch, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Mail drop 5230, Beltsville, Maryland, 20705
- ZIP Code
- 20705
- Solicitation Number
- FSIS-11-B-10
- Archive Date
- 7/2/2010
- Point of Contact
- Kathy A Richardson, Phone: 301-504-4215
- E-Mail Address
-
Kathy.Richardson@fsis.usda.gov
(Kathy.Richardson@fsis.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) intends to negotiate solely with Radix Bio Solutions, LTD, located at 111 W Cooperative Way, Georgetown, TX to obtain Custom Coupled Beads (2 mL each of 58 unique bead ids), Product Number COUPLING. FSIS lab requires the Custom Coupled Beads for performing molecular serology of Salmonella using the Luminax technology. The assay uses Luminax platform (Bio-Plex, BioRad) and uses bead-based suspension array, which allows the detection of many different molecular targets in a single reaction. These beads have the sensitivity to detect single nucleotide difference in H antigen as well as capacity to detect multiple gene targets required for O antigens determination. The bead arrays (group O and H) used for performing molecular serology are custom made from Radix Bio Solutions, LTD. Radix Bio Solutions, LTD is the only known source who can provide this Custom Coupled Beads. The prospective procurement will be a Firm-Fixed-Price contract. The award of this procurement is subject to FAR 52.232-18, Availability of Funds (Apr 1984). This procurement will be conducted under the authority of FAR 6.302.1, only one responsible source and no other supplies or services will satisfy agency requirements. Authority: 41 U.S.C. 253( c ) (1). The product is to be shipped to the following location: Athens, GA. This is not a request for quotations or an announcement of a forthcoming solicitation. Request for copies of this solicitation will not be honored or acknowledged. The Government does not intend to pay for information received. All interested parties must respond within ten (10) calendar days from the date of this notice. Written responses must provide clear and concise documentation indicating your firm's capability to provide the proprietary product. Verbal responses are not acceptable and will not be considered. When responding to this announcement, respondents should refer to Announcement FSIS-11-B-10. If after June 17, 2010, no viable responses have been received in response to this announcement, USDA/FSIS shall negotiate solely with Radix Bio Solutions, LTD.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/FSIS/AAS/FSIS-11-B-10/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Athens, Georgia, United States
- Record
- SN02170502-W 20100609/100607235110-0cd66a9aa6f64a7eeb54be0cb55bab45 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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